Bar
בְּרִיחַStrong’s H1280beriach (be-ri-ach)
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beriach is the Hebrew word usually translated “bars its”, “bars” and “bar”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,”
Meaning
- Barof wood · of city gates
- Of tribulation, a fortress, of the earth as a prison (fig.)
How it's translated
- and bars its 7
- bars its 6
- bars 5
- and bar 4
- for the bars 2
- the bars 2
- bars of 2
- the bar 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 11
- Nehemiah 5
- Numbers 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 2
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:27And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
- Exodus 26:28And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
- Exodus 26:29And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
- Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
- Exodus 36:31And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
- Exodus 36:32And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
All 36 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בְּרִיחַ beriach · bar
1) bar 1a) of wood 1b) of city gates 2) of tribulation, a fortress, of the earth as a prison (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'AR, noun
[If these words are the Eng.bar, the sense is a shoot, that which shoots, passes or is driven.]
- A piece of wood, iron or other solid matte, long in proportion to its diameter, used for various purposes, but especially for a hindrance or obstruction; as the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door or hatchway., Exodus 26:28Exodus 36:33
- Any obstacle which obstructs, hinders or defends; an obstruction; a fortification. Amos 1:5
- The shore of the sea, which restrains its waters. Job 38:10
- The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice.
All definitions and other forms of “bar”
- Figuratively, any tribunal; as the bar of public opinion.
- The inclosed place of a tavern, inn or coffee house, where the landlord or his servant delivers out liquors, and waits upon customers.
- A bank of sand, gravel or earth, forming a shoal at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing entrance, or rendering it difficult.
- A rock in the sea, according to Brown; or any thing by which structure is held together, according to Johnson; used in Jonah 2:6
- Any thing laid across another, as bars in heraldlry, stripes in color, and the like.
- In the menage, the highest part of the place in a horse's mouth between the grinders and tusks, so that the part of the mouth which lies under and at the side of the bars, retains the name of the gum.
- In music, bars are lines drawn perpendicularly across the lines of the staff, including between each two, a certain quantity of time, or number of beats.
- In law, a peremptory exception sufficient to destroy the plaintiff's action.
- A bar of gold or silver, is an ingot, lump or wedge, from the mines, run in a mold, and unwrought.
- Among printers, the iron with a wooden handle, by which the screw of the press is turned.
- In the African trade, a denomination of price; payment formerly being made to the Africans in iron bars.
B'AR, verb transitive
To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door, or gate.
- To hinder; to obstruct, or prevent; as, to bar the entrance of evil.
- To prevent; to exclude; to hinder; to make impracticable; as, the distance between us bars our intercourse.
- To prohibit; to restrain or exclude by express or implied prohibition; as, the statute bars my right; the law bars the use of poisoned weapons.
- To obstruct, prevent or hinder by any moral obstacle; as, the right is barred by time, or by statute; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery.
- To except; to exclude by exception; as, I bar to night.
- To cross with stripes of a different color.
- To bar a vein, in farriery, is an operation upon the legs of a horse, or other parts, to stop malignant humors.
- To adorn with trappings; a contraction of barb. [See Barb.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.